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As the Texas Legislature’s overtime special session kicked off Monday, Democratic lawmakers promised to make their Republican colleagues’ efforts to redraw the state’s congressional maps as painful and protracted a battle as possible. They threatened to drag out hearings, filibuster and even flee the state to deny the quorum necessary …

President Donald Trump is urging Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional maps to add five GOP-friendly House seats, a move that could dramatically reshape the battleground for the 2026 midterm elections. Speaking Tuesday before departing the White House for a trip to Pittsburgh, Trump said, “Texas will be the …

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump traveled to Texas on Friday to meet with first responders and families of flood victims after last week’s catastrophic floods left over 100 dead and more than 150 people missing, including 27 children and camp counselors from a Christian summer camp. At …

State Sen. Angela Paxton announced Thursday she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. “I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,” Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, said in a post on X. “But in light of recent discoveries, I do not …

A 27-year-old Michigan man armed with an assault rifle opened fire on a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, early Monday morning, prompting agents and local law enforcement to return fire and kill the shooter, authorities said. The gunman, identified as Ryan Louis Mosqueda, was wearing a utility vest …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law. This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other. New York has …

Jimmy Williams In a lively debate Tuesday night, Senator Ted Cruz and his Democratic challenger, Rep. Colin Allred, faced off over critical issues such as immigration, abortion, and transgender rights. The debate, which lasted just under an hour, was marked by substantive discussions on policy, with both candidates vying to …

Jimmy Williams Texas has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration in a bid to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women seeking abortions across state lines from criminal investigations. The lawsuit, initiated by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, targets a regulation finalized by the U.S. …

William Melhado, The Texas Tribune More than a year after a Travis County jury convicted Daniel Perry of murdering a protester in Austin, Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned Perry on Thursday shortly after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended a full pardon. A Texas state district court judge sentenced …

Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Harris County on Tuesday to block a new guaranteed income pilot program that would provide financial assistance to families in the county’s poorest neighborhoods. Under the federally funded program, roughly 1,900 Harris County households would receive monthly cash payments …

Alejandro Serrano and Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune A federal appeals court late Tuesday night stopped a state law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border — hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed it to go into effect. Earlier in the …

Uriel J. García and Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday ruled that a law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border can take effect while a legal battle over the new state law empowering local …

Jimmy Williams The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked Texas’ controversial immigration law that would empower state officers to arrest individuals suspected of entering the U.S. illegally. The move comes after the Justice Department requested intervention, highlighting concerns about the law’s impact on the federal government’s immigration authority and its potential …

Ariana Figueroa, Georgia Recorder President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon paid competing visits to the nation’s southern border, where Biden called on Congress to reconsider a bipartisan border security deal that Republicans tanked at Trump’s direction. Biden traveled to Brownsville, Texas, while Trump journeyed to …

Robert Downen and Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune Daniel Miller felt encouraged last week, as fears of a new civil war trended online and a coalition of powerful Republicans coalesced behind Gov. Greg Abbott’s standoff with the Biden administration. As the longtime leader of Texas’ unlikely secessionist movement, Miller …